Subspecies Nyctophilus geoffroyi geoffroyi Leach, 1821

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• Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, W.E. 1821. The characters of seven genera of bats with foliaceous appendages to the nose. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 73-82 pl. 7 [publication date established from Raphael, S. 1970. The publication dates of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 1, 1791–1875. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 2: 61–76 [75]] [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH 17985 skin & skull (the holotype is Nyctophilus timoriënsis Geoffroy specimen b of Jentink, F.A. (1887). op. cit. pp. 273–274 and Jentink, F.A. 1888. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas. Tome XII. Catalogue systématique des mammifères (rongeurs, insectivores, cheiroptères, édentés et marsupiaux). Leide : E.J. Brill 280 pp. [171–172]), Australia (as Australie).

  Type locality references:

  Jentink, F.A. 1887. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas. Catalogue ostéologique des mammifères. Leide : E.J. Brill Vol. 9 360 pp. 12 pls. [274].
• Nyctophilus australis Peters, W. 1861. Über die Chiropterengattung Nyctophilus. Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1860: 123-137 1 pl. [125].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 563 ♂ skin (wet, skull not extracted), ?WA (as wahrscheinlich Westaustralien); ZMB 563 ♂ skin (wet), ?WA (as wahrscheinlich Westaustralien); whereabouts unknown skull (and postcranial skeleton) (not found in ZMB), ?WA (as wahrscheinlich Westaustralien).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, predator, subtropical, under bark, volant, woodland.

History of changes